Janek Bastian Jonas (DE)
Mondmanns Faden / Moonman’s Thread

SYNOPSIS

A Chinese legend tells that the man beyond the moon ties a thread around every newborn child's toe and binds the thread to another child somewhere in the world. Mondmanns Faden (the threads of the man beyond the moon) shows scenes from the life of a woman in Hoima (Uganda) and of a woman in Berlin. The women are situated in different places, still their lives are connected.
The film was produced in an experimental process: first it was shot in Uganda and then, starting from this material, the story of the film was developed in Berlin.

ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY

Janek Bastian Jonas was born 1981 in Berlin-Zehlendorf. Between 2001 and 2003 he studied communication and media design at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd. Between 2003 and 2007 he studied visual communications at UdK Berlin. From September 2004 to April 2005 he spent a semester abroad in Bologna and studied at Accademia di Belle Arti Bologna. He graduated in May 2007 in the class of Prof. Maria Vedder.

FILMOGRAPHY

• Half an hour, 2008, music video for the Berlin based band Jersey
• Die Reise (The Travel), 2007, 4'30", music video for the Berlin based band Rascasse
• Mondmanns Faden (Mondman's Threas), 2007, 14'00", experimental short film
• Graduation work at UdK Berlin
• Public Observation, 2006,11'28", documentation of a project by the artist Francis Zeischegg
• Dame mit Teddy (Lady with Teddy), 2006, 2'50", short film
• Zu dem, was er mal war ... (In addition to that who he was once), 2005, 24'50", documentary
• Quanto tempo fa (How Long Ago), 2005, 4'27", music video for the Italian band Filofobia
• When you come to Bologna, 2005, 5'27", animation
• Noisulli, 2005, 1'41" short film
• So wohnen wir wandernd...(So we Live, Walking), 2004, 15'00", camera and editing for the artist Francis Zeischegg
• 24fps, 2003, 2'18", experimental short film about the theme ‘location description’